The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03
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Read and Think.

AS the population Of the world in
.creases, the relative value Of land
rises through a rise in the rents.
The number oil available acres of
land in the world Is a fixed quanti-
tY, but the worlds population is
constantly increasingly at the
ratio at present OF $4,000, 900 or %
per cent. a year. The supply Of land
is fixed, but the use and demandin-
Aexibly increases. Consequently
It's value must always tend upward.
Therefore the cost of agricultural
production must inevitably increase
from one era to another. In Europe
it casts by reason of the density of
population and the necessity of gem
erous tertIizing Is to 40 per cent.
more 10 produce wheat than in Hi =
nois. In Pennsylvania or New
York it costs 10 to % per cent.
more to produce il than in Dakota.
In Kentucky wheat cannot be sold
without loss at less than sixty five
cents bushel, while in the Red
river valley they can afford to sell
it at forty five ceuts bushel. The
freshness Of the new soil enables
the producer to foregO the cost of
artificial feTtillzing, and the cheap
ness of land and rent in the unset
tied Northwest cuts off tie cost of
the investment in cultivating VEN
lures. This process is universal.
And the facts are that there is a
smaller average yield of the worlds
per capita production of the leading
staples of cereals and live stock in
the last five yelIs than in the FIVE
years last preceding. Cost has steadi
ly increased while prices and pro-
fits have steadily diminished.
Nine-tenths Of the worlds produc-
tive capacity and consumptive re-
sources are based on agriculture.
With no material increase OF
mechanical appliances to aid pro-
duction, and with an ever~increas-
ing cost, the productions Of agricul-
ture have declined far more than
those Of artisan industry, and the in
ference is irresistible that this cardi-
nal predicate of the over-production
hypothesis is a transparent lie.
While expanded production and
consumption would have naturally
exchanged their commensurately in'
creased quantities at unchanged
lnces, if the supply of money had
continued proportiOnate to the in
crease of work imposed on it, the
anti silver conspiracy has been con-
tracing chat supply as its work in
creased. Hence the universal price
depression, and that was the sole
aim of the capitalist conspiracy; the
enslavement and robbery of produc'
ton IS being fully realized.
It was and is the sole motive,
aim and end of the antl-sllver con-
spiracy to create for the gold COM
modify Of capital a greater power
and mastery over producing capital
and labor, aud to enrich the few by
stealing the greater part OF the value
Of their productions from the many.
Many people would call discussions
like this dry and tIresome, but it ic
that very unworthy sentiment which
keeps the masses In ignorance, and
permits the successful accomplish
ment of their robbery and ruin
However they may like it, the peo'
| pie will never be ready to grapplt
with this all-importan issue and re-
cover their rights without first cor.
rectly understanding it, The labor
they spend III efforts 10 understand
it they will find 10 be the most prof
table thing they have ever under
taken.